CONTENTS Introduction Chapter I. Auxiliary results § 1. An integral transform § 2. Generalized Faber polynomials § 3. Asymptotic approximation by polynomials § 4. A boundary value problem Chapter II. Asymptotic properties of orthogonal polynomials § 1. Extremal properties and asymptotic behaviour of the leading coefficient § 2. Asymptotic formulae § 3. An estimate of an orthogonal polynomial inside the domain § 4. A second derivation of the estimates inside the domain § 5. Polynomials orthogonal on a circle Chapter III. Fourier series in orthogonal polynomials § 1. Conditions for convergence inside the domain § 2. The rate of convergence inside the domain § 3. Convergence in the closed domain § 4. Representation of analytic functions under smoothness conditions on the contour and weight Chapter IV. Some results on the Steklov problem § 1. The Steklov problem in the theory of orthogonal polynomials § 2. Boundedness conditions and estimates of the growth of polynomials orthogonal on a contour § 3. Asymptotic properties of polynomials orthogonal on a contour when the weight function becomes infinite at isolated points § 4. Asymptotic properties of polynomials orthogonal on a contour when the weight function has isolated zeros § 5. Example References